[4who]

Please excuse my ignorance, but I am just hearing about these types of disorders and the little that I have read about for symptoms, sound familiar (someone I know).

[ProspectiveSingleMom]

I've been doing some research on this recently. Adults cannot receive a diagnosis of attachment disorder because it is considered a childhood disorder. Unresolved attacment disorder could lead to a personality disorder in adulthood, however, with borderline personality disorder being most common. It has a lot of the same symptoms as attachment disorder.

[Sheriv]

Yes........especially if they never receive or benefit from therapy.

[sundara]

See "Stop walking on eggshells" by Paul Mason & Randi Kreger - it has a great checklist so you can see how strong the indicators are for BPD.

My 18yo daughter is the poster child for this disorder (she has all sypmtoms listed except one). My other kids (all were adopted from foster care & were abused/neglected in some way) have some of the symptoms but not nearly as many as my 18yo.

I only got the book this weekend but it is excellent and I am excited as it gives tips for dealing with the behaviors.

[4kids4me]

Yes they can and it would steem from not getting or WORKing with the issues when younger..We have told has bad as our daughters RAD is she will not get over it and grow up to have abusive and failed relasionships..Poeople with RAD can not love or attach..they can say the words but there mind doesn't connect with there heart

[Kansas Girl]

yes - adults can have all kinds of issues from unresolved attachment issues, and depending on the severity of the attachment issues (remember, attachment issues will be on a range of mild to severe), it could cover a lot of different problems - anything from dysfunctional relationships to that alphabet soup psychiatric stuff. Our AT has adult patients - and depending on the person's willingness to work and change, an adult can achieve healing from attachment issues. While none of us want to see our kids with attachment issues go through hard times, and achieving emotional health can get that much more difficult as one gets older, I'm a firm believer that there is always hope - even if our kids aren't healed on our timetable.

Fran